Defendant Lynda Dieu Phan plead guilty to forced labor, marriage fraud, and other related charges in 2010 after forcing two Vietnamese women to work in nail salons and enter into sham marriages. Phan recruited the victims by telling their families that they would pay for the women's immigration papers and travel to the U.S. in exchange for the women working in her nail salon. After arriving in the U.S., Phan forced the women to live in her home where they were made to sleep on the floor and cook and clean. Phan coerced the women into working long hours at the nail salon by withholding their documents and money, and threatening them with jail if they told anyone what was happening to them.